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undertaken to obtain additional information regarding Alaskan 

 material now in the Museum. 



Mr. Casper Mayer visited the Indian Congress on Long 

 Island during the summer and succeeded in obtaining 33 casts 

 of Indians, chiefly Sioux. 



Capt. George N. Comer and Capt. James S. Mutch are in 

 the Arctic, and are continuing their collections under the 

 direction of the department. 



Expedition in China. — During the past year Dr. Laufer has 

 been actively pushing the work in China, carried on under the 

 auspices of the East Asiatic Committee. Very extensive col- 

 lections, referring particularly to the industrial life of the Chi- 

 nese, have been received by the Museum. Dr. Laufer is ex- 

 pected to return to New York during the spring of 1904, and 

 will give his personal attention to the installation of these 

 collections. 



From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, the first Memoir 

 by Mr. Bogoras on the Chukchee is now in press and will ap- 

 pear shortly. Mr. Bogoras is now in Europe and at work on 

 the second part of his studies on the Chukchee, a large portion 

 having been already completed. Mr. Jochelson has finished 

 his first Memoir on the Koryak, and it will go to press in the 

 near future, and Dr. Swanton has completed a lengthy Memoir 

 on the Haida Indians, which is now ready for publication. 



Although it will take some time to work up scientifically all 

 the material that has come to the Museum as the result of this 

 expedition, the demonstration of a close relationship existing 

 between certain tribes of eastern Siberia and the aborigines 

 of our own country is one of the results that it was originally 

 hoped might come from this work. 



Dr. Farrand is editing Mr. Teit's notes on the mythology 

 of British Columbia, and it is expected that the work will be 

 ready for the press during the first half of 1904. 



Dr. Dixon has practically completed an exhaustive paper on 

 the ethnology of the Maiclu Indians of California. 



Dr. Wissler has been engaged in revising his notes on the 

 decorative art of the Sioux, in the light of information obtained 

 by him during the summer. 



